raiding
WoW Factor: The black mark of World of Warcraft’s player economy
Sometimes, I like to play a little game with MOP's Bree. I say I like to because the game is "Give Bree An Aneurysm,"...
Albion Online’s first Paths to Glory patch fixes a multitude of Albion Journal issues
Albion Online hasn't had the most flawless post-Paths to Glory experience, as at the end of July, it was victimized by a series of...
Perfect Ten: 10 tabletop games based on World of Warcraft
So here's what inspired this particular article: I was thinking about board games based upon MMOs of various scales because the other day I...
Lost Ark’s style book and planned Echidna raid nerfs won’t make it into next week’s patch
Just a week after its summer-to-fall roadmap dropped, Amazon is tweaking Lost Ark's plans a pinch. The studio says that most of the content...
Choose My Adventure: Mission runs cap off a welcoming return to Elite Dangerous
What a difference a month makes. When I first started these series of Elite Dangerous posts for Choose My Adventure, I had gone into...
Design Mockument: How to make housing work in World of Warcraft
Since the launch of World of Warcraft, players have been waiting for and longing to have housing. It still has not happened. The reasons...
Tarisland adds damage and defense bonuses for bringing rookies to endgame content
Tarisland has been surprisingly quiet since its launch here in the west last month, with Tencent having focused on launch promotion and influencer showdowns....
Pokemon Go’s Meteorite make-up event goes non-Elite – a rare win for players
Remember that Pokemon Go Meteorite bait-and-switch we covered back in June? And that not only was there a communication issue but that it had...
Lost Ark’s August-through-November 2024 roadmap heralds new continent, T4, and bound gold
Lost Ark's third roadmap of the year has arrived as of this afternoon, heralding core new content and features coming to the game from...
Final Fantasy XIV adds in time-limited tomestone along with its new Savage raid tier
The time has come for Final Fantasy XIV players to start collecting time-limited tomes once again with the most recent patch, which adds Allagan...
Rumor: Blizzard’s new WoW Classic survey once more raises hopes for a Classic Plus launch
If you're anywhere even adjacent to the WoW Classic playerbase, then you've probably seen rumblings about a "Classic Plus survey" making the rounds in...
The Daily Grind: What life lesson did you learn from MMOs the hard way?
I know MMOs don't exist to teach us life lessons, but they definitely have the opportunity to do so, whether we want them to...
The MOP Up: Perfect World’s co-CEOs tap out
GamesIndustry is reporting that the two co-CEOs of Perfect World have been replaced as CEOs but remain as directors: "Perfect World CEO Xiao Hong...
The Stream Team: Closing out the final fight of Final Fantasy XIV’s Arcadion
Last week, MOP's Chris and his crew made it through the first three rounds of Final Fantasy XIV's recently added Arcadion raid series. Unfortunately,...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s August is leaning into Adventure
I must admit that Pokemon Go's traditional Adventure Week events have historically been a minor hit with me as they feature the fossil 'mon...
Final Fantasy XIV shares insight into the singer behind the Arcadion’s final fight song
It's hard to miss the fact that the Arcadion raid series in Final Fantasy XIV features bespoke tracks for each of the raid's four...
Global Chat: Looking back at 15 years of World of Warcraft blogging
Fifteen years is a huge chunk of time to devote to both a video game and an ongoing blog covering it, but that's exactly...
Lost Ark tweaks its leveling event, buffs solo raid rewards, and hands out a free swimsuit skin
You might have thought that today's Lost Ark patch would be just a measly maintenance patch, what with the Cool Retreat update just having...
Guild Wars 2 is using Janthir Wilds’ raid and convergence to assess future raid content
With less than a month before Janthir Wilds opens up new zones and housing content, Guild Wars 2's devs are now turning their promotional...
City of Heroes Homecoming’s i28p1 is live with the Marine Affinity powerset and new raid
If you were keeping an eyeball on City of Heroes' Homecoming not-rogue servers over the last month, you already knew that the player-led volunteer...
